Articles tagged with "cardiff-city-news"
Q. How many Jack Bar-Stewards does it take to change a lightbulb? A. It doesn't matter, they'd all be too occupied trying to smash it.
By Martyn | November 30th, 2008Swansea City is a horrible football club and the city itself is host to horrible people. Firstly, the Jack goalscorers celebrated with the infamous 'swim ...
Dawn French, Kenneth Branagh, Marianne Faithful, Ricky Gervais, Lenny Henry, Chris Tarrant, Kate Winslet... your boys took one hell of a beating for like, 15 minutes
By Martyn | November 27th, 2008A draw at home with a team reduced to 10 men in the first half is not normally considered an alright result by any stretch ...
Cardiff worthy of their punch in the Plymouth.
By Martyn | November 25th, 2008Unfortunately (or fortunately) I missed Saturday's Bluebirds game as I was in Florence watching Fiorentina beat Udinese 4-2. The latter was a game so exciting ...
Ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambit... (repeat 'til it finally sinks in)
By Martyn | November 20th, 2008I hereby offer a short posting. Which is something of an anomaly. It delivers tremendous news too. Which is also something of an anomaly. Cardiff ...
Cardiff's bite proves more potent than its bark (just).
By Martyn | November 16th, 2008Cardiff City beat Crystal Palace 2-1 to ensure that rivals Swansea City didn't leapfrog them in the table. Phew! Palace's goal came from the ultimate ...
FA "Referee" Lee Probert 1-0 Cardiff City
By Martyn | November 9th, 2008Cardiff City were robbed of taking anything from a game they were never out of by some farcical and diabolical refereeing decisions. The Bluebirds had ...
It's like the exciting bit of one of those manager simulation games except that erm, this is actually real
By Martyn | November 5th, 2008As the world news radar is currently consumed by some election result in a big country the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, reports that ...
Sky get their prayers answered as 3 of the Championship's Big 4 strikers score and the Wolves juggernaut goes marching on. As for the City vessel...
By Martyn | November 2nd, 2008... well the rats aren't quite fleeing just yet, but they're designating the toothbrushes and rifling through the wardrobes and cupboards as I type. However, ...
2-0 to the kleptomaniacs!
By Martyn | October 29th, 2008For the second time in the space of 4 days, Cardiff City win after fans of both teams involved endure the individual and collective dire ...
Not quite deforestation, but McGugan's chopping down of McPhail sets up City triumph!
By Martyn | October 26th, 2008Cardiff City beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 in a game that might have driven the neutral to insanity through excessive tedium, sloppiness, profligacy, laziness and absent ...
Richard Lee & Ross McCormack - Two current superheroes, only one Herts. based winner
By Martyn | October 22nd, 2008I wasn't able to get to yesterday's 2-all draw at Watford as I was stuck analysing the merits of Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos ...
The battle of capital city teams sees Cardiff triumph as two very kind Charlton players nip off early to get the baths warm & bubbly
By Martyn | October 19th, 2008The last 20 minutes of Cardiff's 2-0 victory over Charlton really split opinion in an expectant crowd. Walking out of Ninian Park after the game, ...
A game of two parts: The remaining hour
By Martyn | October 1st, 2008As I concluded in the last post on the game's opening half-hour, what a difference a goal makes. All of a sudden there was urgency, ...
A game of two parts: Opening half-hour
By Martyn | October 1st, 2008I still cannot believe how bad we were in the opening half-hour of last night's match against Coventry City. We looked scared to go anywhere ...
Bluebirds suffer as Brum give the kind of performance that would tempt the dog from the meat-wagon.
By Martyn | September 28th, 2008This contest is perhaps best defined by twisted clichés like 'David vs Goliath with the latter obeying expectation and triumphing' and normal clichés like 'it ...
Anything but your average Tuesday night.
By Martyn | September 24th, 2008With the sun penetrating my eyelids, so my day forcefully began. 23/09/08. No work, no plan, no nothing. On rolled 4pm, and at last, the ...
Migration-happy Bluebirds held by ewesless Rams.
By Martyn | September 21st, 2008Never has a game of football been open to so much spin. On the coach home from a place Nottingham Forest supporters don't much like, ...
Every day I wake up I thank the Lord for Barnsley Football Club...
By Martyn | September 17th, 2008Those of you put-out by the title of this post... I really don't mean to gloat or sound obnoxiously disrespectful. After all, I support a ...
City-City gifted main match status on an English football highlights show! Shame it isn't MOTD... yet.
By Martyn | September 14th, 2008Strange things, statistics. Perhaps not the things themselves, but the way they can be manipulated or interpreted in several ways. Take Notts County’s start to ...
"Soccer is the biggest thing that's happened in creation. It's bigger than any 'ism' you can name."
By Martyn | September 12th, 2008So said Alan Brown, presumably long before this era and process of mundane international qualifiers. The biggest story/ordeal Cardiff City wise during the international fortnight ...
Just how much of a transfer fee could and should Ross McCormack command in today's grossly over-inflated transfer market?
By Martyn | September 5th, 2008Cardiff City's Ross McCormack gave another wonderful showing that epitomised his burgeoning talent and potential for the Scottish U21 side last night. Since the move ...
Should I be listening to 'Jealous Guy' by Roxy Music as Man City mania hits the UK, or rejoice because my club still retains a few toes in reality?
By Martyn | September 2nd, 2008After a livestock transportation deadline day that saw the transfers of household names such as Ricardo Quaresma, Dimitar Berbatov, Robinho, and erm, Jon Parkin, we ...
Benign Blades 0 - 0 Blunt (But Resolute) Instruments
By Martyn | August 31st, 2008If I have to sum this game up in three letters, they would all be the alphabet's much maligned 26th character in a bold, capitalised ...
If Russia is a metaphor for injury then we're starting to look rather like Georgia!
By Martyn | August 27th, 2008Well... we made it through to Round 3 of the Naff Fizzy Tasteless Lager Cup. And that's a ruddy positive! As with everything in life ...
It might well beggar belief, but Canaries prove to be more annoying than pigeons and seagulls!
By Martyn | August 24th, 2008Although I confidently predicted a 2-0 cruise, it turned out to be more like a trip on the ill-fated Titanic. We got the exciting part ...
He may not be Vedder of Pearl Jam, the Champions League-winning Extra Time-scoring former Colchester United part-timer, nor our ex Chairman/Manager May... But hello anyway, Fulham reserve EJ!
By Martyn | August 22nd, 2008In a week that has seen two of our players end up on losing Welsh national teams - Parry with the full team, Blake with ...
Have you heard the one about the Hungarian at the Cobblers?
By Martyn | August 20th, 2008No me neither as such a joke doesn't exist, but it acts as an apt headline to the news that we've signed a Hungarian ...
Perhaps we ought to sign Cher, she was strong enough.
By Martyn | August 18th, 2008As Mark E Smith once said of the current music scene, the lump of bread dipped ravenously and plentifully into yoof of today chutney: "God ...
City use (Keep)moat to stave off attacks to Heaton’s castle but forget and fail to take Don’s King in the process.
By Martyn | August 17th, 2008So it continues: The last time City tasted defeat was in the FA Cup final. Our 100% start to the season - continuing a successfully ...
The earlier than expected Scout Post and defensive dilemmatic deficiencies
By Martyn | August 14th, 2008Lo and behold, it looks as if we've finally made efforts to sort out the woeful scouting system inadequacies! The appointment of Roger Smith is ...
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